Who should be tested?
The following are behaviors that increase your chances of getting HIV. If you answer yes to any of them, you should definitely get an HIV test. If you continue with any of these behaviors, you should be tested every year.
- You are sexually active (3 or more sexual partners in the last 12 months)
- You are uncertain about your past or current sexual partner(s) risk behaviors.
- You are a male who has had sex with another male at any time.
- If you are a female and any of your male sexual partners has had sex with another male.
- You have used street drugs by injection, especially when sharing needles and/or other equipment.
- If you have shared needles for any other purpose including medical (e.g. insulin, other medications or vitamins)
- You have ever been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), including pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and Hepatitis C.
- You are a health care worker with direct exposure to blood on the job.
- You received a blood transfusion between 1977 and 1985, or a sexual partner received a transfusion and later tested positive for HIV.
- You are pregnant. There are now treatments that can greatly reduce the risk that a pregnant woman who has HIV will give the virus to her baby.
- You are a woman who wants to make sure you are not infected with HIV before getting pregnant.
- You have had unprotected sex with someone who could answer yes to any of the above questions.
- Even if you have no risk factors for HIV infection, you may still want to get tested to ease your own mind. This also encourages everyone to be more responsible about HIV transmission.
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